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[ad_1] Reigning British GT champion Seb Morris will drive a Team Parker racing Bentley in its return to the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Morris competed for the team during his British GT3 title-winning season last year, before he then featured on the Celebs Go Dating TV show. The move also marks the Team Parker

[ad_1] Giancarlo Fisichella will return to the scene of one of his three Formula 1 grand prix wins with a drive in the Australian GP GT support races in Melbourne. The 2005 Albert Park F1 winner has secured a one-off drive with Maranello Motorsport for the Australian GT season opener, and will race the same

[ad_1] Twelve manufacturers are represented on the first draft of the entry list for the Suzuka 10 Hours Intercontinental GT3 Challenge round in August. Four of the five manufacturers to register for the series that combines four of the big GT3 enduros around the world are on the 27-car provisional entry for the August 26

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. The Grasser Lamborghini squad will defend its Blancpain GT Series drivers’ titles with unchanged line-ups in 2018. Factory drivers Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli and Christian Engelhart will bid to retain their BGTS Endurance Cup crown in the lead Grasser Racing Team

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. British Touring Car Championship race-winner Aron Taylor-Smith will contest this year’s Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup with Team Parker Racing. Taylor-Smith will share a Team Parker Bentley Continental GT3s with Briton Josh Caygill for the full season in the silver cup

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. A new endurance race at Monza planned for early next month has been cancelled. A shortfall in entries has resulted in a race dubbed the Targa 6H Monza being shelved by organiser Driving Force Events, which runs the the Gulf 12

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Lexus will join the Blancpain GT Series full-time in 2018. A pair of Lexus RC F GT3s will be entered in both the Endurance and Sprint Cup segments of the BGTS by the Swiss Emil Frey team. The full BGTS programme

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Japanese Super GT organisers have moved its Autopolis round to avoid a clash with the World Endurance Championship’s Fuji race, which was shifted to accommodate Fernando Alonso. The WEC moved its Japanese race so Formula 1 star Alonso could race with

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota star Kamui Kobayashi has been drafted into the marque’s Super GT line-up to form a new superteam with fellow ex-Formula 1 racer Heikki Kovalainen. Kobayashi, who has never contested a full season in Super GT before, will join 2016 champion

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Ash Walsh has been released from hospital after undergoing minor surgery on his elbow following his monster Bathurst 12 Hour crash on Sunday evening. Having spun after tangling with a backmarker during the closing stages of the Intercontinental GT Challenge race,

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Bathurst 12 Hour winner Robin Frijns says his WRT Audi R8 LMS would likely have run out of fuel had the race not been interrupted before the finish. Last weekend’s epic contest at Mount Panorama boiled down to a tense fuel

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Robin Frijns, Stuart Leonard, and Dries Vanthoor won the 2018 Bathurst 12 Hour, after the race was declared early due to a massive final-stint crash. Frijns led the field during a final hour economy test, building to a tense showdown in

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Supercars star Chaz Mostert put Schnitzer BMW on pole for the Bathurst 12 Hour, the opening round of the 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge. Mostert ran second to last in the top 10 shootout after being second fastest in the initial qualifying

[ad_1] Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Matthieu Vaxiviere has been named as the latest addition to the R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad for this year’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. The French driver, who won five races in Formula Renault 3.5 and its Formula V8 3.5 successor, switched

[ad_1] A new six-hour endurance race will take place at Monza for the first time this March. The Targa 6H Monza on March 10 will be an all-comers race open to GT3 and GT4 machinery, TCR touring cars and Group CN prototypes. It has been launched by the organiser of the Gulf 12 Hours at

[ad_1] The WRT Audi team will slim down its attack on the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup this season in a bid to win an eighth title in the championship. The Belgian team, which has won three drivers’ and four teams’ titles in the championship formerly known as the Blancpain Endurance Series, plans to run

[ad_1] Honda has revealed how 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button will fit into its line-up for his first full season in Japan’s Super GT series. After a debut outing in Super GT’s showpiece Suzuka 1000km race last year, Button set his sights on a full season in Japan in 2018 and agreed a

[ad_1] Jaguar has taken the wraps off its first GT car developed in-house for more than 50 years. The new GT4 car, based on the V8-engined F-type, was unveiled at Autosport International on Thursday as part of a British GT Championship programme under the banner of the Invictus Games for disabled servicemen. The F-type has

[ad_1] Aston Martin factory drivers Nicki Thiim and Maxime Martin will race for the R-Motorsport Blancpain GT Series squad jointly run by the British Arden and Jota teams in 2018. Thiim, World Endurance Championship GT title winner in 2016, and new Aston signing Martin join a line-up for the Endurance Cup rounds of the BGTS

[ad_1] Former World Endurance Championship GT title-winning pairing Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen will race in British GT for TF Sport in 2018. The Danish Aston Martin drivers, who won the WEC GT drivers’ crown together in 2016, will join Tom Ferrier’s team to share with amateur drivers Derek Johnston and Mark Farmer. Sorensen, 27,

[ad_1] Supercars aces Craig Lowndes and Shane van Gisbergen will drive a factory-backed McLaren at the Bathurst 12 Hour GT race next year. Reigning winner Lowndes will switch from the 2017 race-winning Maranello Motorsport squad to the factory-backed YNA Autosports McLaren outfit. He will be joined by former McLaren works driver van Gisbergen and current

[ad_1] The Belgian WRT squad will represent the Audi factory when it makes its debut in the Bathurst 12 Hours in February next year. The team’s pair of R8 LMS GT3 cars will be entered under the Audi Sport Team WRT banner as part of the German marque’s commitment to defend its drivers’ and manufacturers’

[ad_1] Dries Vanthoor has emulated his brother Laurens by becoming an Audi factory driver. The 19-year-old Belgian, who has raced Audi GT3 machinery for the past two years, has been named as one of two newcomers on the German manufacturer’s GT driver roster for 2018 along with countryman Frederic Vervisch. Vanthoor follows in the footsteps

[ad_1] Bentley has announced Spa 24 Hours winner Jules Gounon as the replacement for Oliver Jarvis in the team’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and Intercontinental GT Challenge line-ups for 2018. The son of nine-time grand prix starter Jean-Marc, Gounon partnered Markus Winkelhock and Christopher Haase to victory in the Blancpain series’ staple race in

[ad_1] Porsche will mount its first full-season factory campaign in the history of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup next year. The factory Manthey Racing squad will run a solo Porsche 911 GT-R in the BGTS enduros as part of an increased commitment by the German manufacturer to the GT3 category, which will include a

[ad_1] Andre Lotterer is aiming to add to his three Le Mans 24 Hours wins with another twice-around-the-clock victory on the Nurburgring-Nordschleife next year. Lotterer, who now races in Formula E with Techeetah, is hoping that he will line up with Porsche in the Nurburgring 24 Hours next May in its latest 911 GT3-R contender.

[ad_1] Jenson Button says his “love for motor racing is back” after spending a year away from Formula 1, ahead of his return to full-time competition in Super GT in 2018. The 2009 F1 world champion announced at the weekend that he will contest the full Super GT season in Japan next year with Honda,

[ad_1] Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button has signed a deal to drive for Honda in the Japanese Super GT series in 2018. Button had made it clear he would “definitely” be making a full-time return to motorsport next year and was particularly keen on racing in Japan or America. The 2009 F1 champion took

[ad_1] The British Arden squad is joining forces with a Swiss entrant to mount Aston Martin’s first pro class assault on the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in seven years. The stalwart single-seater squad will field a pair of Aston Martin Vantage V12s in the five BGTS enduros under the banner of R-Motorsport, which has